Chime

Formalism comes naturally to Kurosawa, like walking or breathing; his frames, never ostentatious, somehow go from spare to pressurized without visible manipulation. Chime, which runs 45 minutes long, is , like so many of KK's films, a diabolical paradox, an exercise in…

Adam Nayman

Invisible sounds of the modern world: putting out the trash, balancing work and family, between art and profit, all while dealing with a progressive existential alienation that slowly contaminates everything, even the actual matter of the world. A hitchcockian yarn plagued…

Diogo Serafim

Uncanny and existentially terrifying in a way that I haven't felt since the first time I saw Cure and Pulse. Not the first to mention this on this website but this is Kiyoshi with the B subplots stripped out until it's almost pure form, practically abstract. More than an…

Neil Bahadur

The uniquely hypnotic, ambient dread of Cure and Pulse distilled into 45 minutes of pure alienated menace. Paranoid ambiguity and trance (or curse) like possession where the unbearably still hum of a modern work/home environment is a tense precursor to horrifying violent…

Josh Lewis

One of the purest Kurosawa movies. Very direct and stripped about how his formal control can highlight unease and the malaise behind the spookiness. Very much for the fans, but why else make something like this.

Filipe Furtado

From the brilliant mind that forged the horror masterpieces Cure and Pulse, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has once again made a work of art that relies heavily on the use of subtle, yet highly effective horror filmmaking. The movie focuses on a former chef named Takuji Matsuoka who is…

Jomari Bashin

The death rattle of the modern world, a corrosive asmr of samsara; a continuation of the final shot of Cure; a truly cursed text.

Lee Does Not Exist सब्बे सत्ता सुखी होन्तु

In this 45-minute unsettling experiment, Kiyoshi Kurosawa provides an interesting new piece to his brand of unknown horror. It's highly reminiscent of Cure and Pulse, but a sense of autonomy separates this textually and visually. Evil grows out of life's safe banality in…

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feelin' fine

David Sims